Brazil's government is preparing a task force involving several government agencies and enforcement bodies that will soon launch an operation to remove illegal gold miners from the Yanomami reservation, indigenous leader Joenia Wapichana said on Tuesday.
Wapichana will in a few days become the first indigenous person to head the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, appointed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to expel wildcat miners from protected indigenous lands.
Speaking to journalists on an Amazon-based journalism platform called Sumaúma, Wapichana said she could not give details of the imminent operation in order to not alert the miners that have invaded the Yanomami territory. "We have to let the police forces organize the operation in secret; the message from President Lula is that it will happen soon and cannot delay long," she said.
Wapichana said the task forces, as in past offensive against illegal miners, will involve the Federal Police, the army, the environmental protection agency Ibama, several ministries and Funai.
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